5-0405 SPEAKING FROM THE MARGINS: NEGOTIATIONS OF AGENCY WITHIN LEGACIES OF SUBORDINATION

Saturday, November 19, 2011: 10:15-12:00

Abstract not available in preliminary program.

This session would be of particular interest to:
Students, Teachers of Anthropology in Community Colleges, Practicing and Applied Anthropologists

Organizers: Chris VanderStouwe (University of California, Santa Barbara) and Madeleine Adkins (University of Colorado at Boulder)

Chairs: Madeleine Adkins (University of Colorado at Boulder) and Chris VanderStouwe (University of California, Santa Barbara)

Discussants: Norma Mendoza-Denton (U of Arizona)

10:15

Collective Grammar, Individual Embodiment: Authentication In Salvadoran Testimonio of Unauthorized Migration

Mary Bucholtz (University of California, Santa Barbara) and Lynnette Arnold (University of California, Santa Barbara)

10:30

Victimization As Empowerment In Discrimination Narratives From California's Proposition 8 Campaign

Chris VanderStouwe (University of California, Santa Barbara)

10:45

From Sweepers to Sellers: Interpersonal Narratives about Occupation Change From Mothers to Daughters

Anindita Chatterjee (University of Texas, Austin)

11:00

Laughing At Us or Laughing with Us? the Use of Humor by LGBT Comedians In Contrastive Spaces

Corinne A. Seals (Georgetown University)

11:15

Speaking on the Margins of Endangered Language Revitalization: The Gwened Dialect of Breton

Madeleine Adkins (University of Colorado at Boulder)

11:30

Dressing Like the State: Sovereign Mourning In West Papua’s Central Highlands

Jacob A Nerenberg (University of Toronto)

11:45

Discussant

Norma Mendoza-Denton (U of Arizona)

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